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Reproduction numbers for epidemic models with households and other social structures. I. Definition and calculation of R(0)

The basic reproduction number R(0) is one of the most important quantities in epidemiology. However, for epidemic models with explicit social structure involving small mixing units such as households, its definition is not straightforward and a wealth of other threshold parameters has appeared in th...

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Autores principales: Pellis, Lorenzo, Ball, Frank, Trapman, Pieter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Elsevier 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3693038/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22085761
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mbs.2011.10.009